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Thank you for this posting. I went and did some looking at the WWI Registrations and the scanning is SO CLEAR, I could read names I could not read before. It solved one of my mysteries, and created another. Thanks for posting it.

I checked all the WW I draft registration cards for my great uncles; I’d already found them for my grandfathers, one of whom was living and working in Canada. Looking at them together, some interesting things emerged. One side were all balding, while the other side weren’t. I learned that one had brown eyes, while all the others had blue. My grandfathers and great uncles were all working, some as farmers. But two on one side were still living with their parents and working as farm hands for the same neighbor. Seemed appropriate for the 20 yr old, but not for the 32 yr old. The younger one ended up owning a stationery and bookstore; I don’t know what the older one did, but he was apparently not as ambitious as his younger brother. Interesting what tidbits can be learned from these minimal documents collected for a very different purpose.

Dick Eastman has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He
has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware,
software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already
using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He
built his first home computer in 1980.